The Crowd
Subtitle: British Literature and Public Politics
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: November 13, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780520219168
Subjects: British & Irish history: c 1700 to c 1900; Literary studies: 19th century; POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; Social groups & communities; c 1800 to c 1900; Great Britain; 19th Century English Literature; Great Britain - History - 19th Century; Political fiction, English; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Literature: Classics; British Isles; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / General; Politics and literature; English literature; Europe - Great Britain - General; General; 19th century; History; History and criticism
First sentence: In the first decade of the great century of crowds, the literary changes wrought by new forms of social aggregation come nowhere more vividly to light than in Wordsworth's 1805 The Prelude.